The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
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LONDON, United Kingdom — Purchasing beauty products once meant perusing items in your local drugstore or department store beauty counters, supplied by heavy-weight conglomerates like L'Oréal, Estée Lauder or Procter & Gamble. But today, the oligopoly of multinational beauty giants face fierce competition from industry disruptors and celebrity brands capitalising on growing niches of consumer demand — and creating innovative new career opportunities in the process.
Following the emergence of makeup artists like Lisa Eldridge and Charlotte Tilbury, who pioneered industry change with makeup artist-led brands and online makeup tutorial communities, is the second generation of beauty blogger and celebrity influencers building drop-based direct-to-consumer businesses. The likes of Huda Kattan and Kylie Jenner both now own and front beauty brands already worth and projected to soon be worth billions of dollars.
Product-led line Beauty Pie, which focuses on radical transparency, Manny Mua’s gender diverse products and ModiFace’s technology-driven products are also increasingly connecting with millennial and Gen-Z consumers through innovative research, production and marketing strategies, while Fenty beauty has emphatically proven the business rationale behind inclusive product lines that adequately reflect the diversity of global consumers.
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In 2017, Euromonitor International valued the global beauty and personal care industry at $465 billion. By 2023, it is expected to reach a market value of $805 billion, according to market researcher Orbis Research. Driving much of this growth is the industry’s continuing success in capitalising on digital channels of communication with consumers.
Today, the beauty industry offers a diversity of career opportunities — many of which sit at the forefront of creativity, digital marketing and technological innovation.
Here are the most exciting opportunities beauty available on BoF Careers:
Digital Design Director, Charlotte Tilbury — London, United Kingdom
Executive Director Corporate Strategy, Estée Lauder Companies — New York, United States
Beauty Editor, Selfridges & Co. — London, United Kingdom
Account Executive, Beauty, The Communications Store — New York, United States
Beauty Buying Administrator, Liberty — London, United Kingdom
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Global Education Director Tom Ford Beauty, Estée Lauder Companies — New York, United States
Account Manager Fashion and Beauty, Z7 Communications — Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Merchandising Administrator Beauty, Harvey Nichols — London, United Kingdom
Jo Malone & Bobbi Brown Team Lead, DFS Group — San Francisco, United States
BoF Careers provides essential sector insights for fashion designers this month, to help you decode fashion’s creative and commercial landscape.
This week, talent expert Suki Sandhu OBE and advisor and executive search consultant Karen Harvey shared insights on the core skill sets expected of leaders and managers in the fashion industry today. BoF Careers shares key learnings from the event.
Discover the most exciting career opportunities now available on BoF Careers — including jobs from Ermenegildo Zegna Group, JW Anderson and A-Cold-Wall.
BoF spoke to HR executives and talent experts at Alexander McQueen, On and Deckers Brands — global employers currently recruiting on BoF Careers — to understand what skills are most relevant to the fashion industry and how to upskill in them in the workplace.